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Gardeners’ Chronic 
No. 1688. 8А TURDAY, MA r 3, ХОРО 
TS. 
Ammonium nitrate . 217 |Peony news, bulletin of 217 
— orchidists, mes- Padiham, publie — 
e from ont, 2T | Tor . 216 
ceylon Agr ricultural So- Potato hybrid, a.. 217 
ne х 54 ear book . 217 | Rismollan (Chenopo- 
ria lit ie dri alis ior | — pines. \).. ~ 217 
Sane’ in shade ... 217 | Rose Chri aes 217 
Horticultural showsand EN vett ock.. .. 218 
the en ene tax 216 Societie 
India, food production Midland. Daffcdil .. 220 
Л... | Нени апа 
Lilies in 1918 E Primula 222 
Melons, a me thod 6 National Ro: 2 
growing, with Жегу Коуа1 Horticultural: EID 
little heat . 212 чаш —_ eners, 
et Giadiolus So- s fro 
“ - 21 А КАДАЙ, in n W esteru 
orehi tes nd a pany 
gleanings— Spri oward ... 2 
oe Margaret ‘Stamorashire, , Чешоп- 
Gatton Pa A var. A 214| stration plots in 216 
Lae lio- Cattleya | Week's чоқ [^ 214, 215 
Hyn x 214 eo, eerie 
MEUS. DOW. 2181 tae 
ILE GEI Se 
Daffodils, a first f Whi te арда 219 
Liliuin canadense in Colonel чыр ender’s garder 
at High Grove, Pinner, Middles 212 
Lilium medeoloides in Mr. eres "s i iden at Ken- 
o ons, Henley files Thames 
ulb o "m SS x Ses E 3 
pus t.nuifolium, bulb >: ua - 
Odontioda ЕЕ Gatton Park variety 214 
ароба Lady Veite . 218 
ose Christine ,, 217 
LILIES IN 1918. 
assing of 1918 will not 
e 
, 
h r 
that ponds, streams and s springs dried u D 
while in карду directions the water supp 
shor 
e cavil at the unstable 
charact f climate, we must not 
forget that the Lily season of 1918 opened 
well with a five weeks’ spel fine, dry 
ather. When this ca an abru 
early in July, Lilies of all kinds 
were looking uncom: ly well, an 
x E GARDENERS' 
g Lilies had been in better form than 
fon gs years past. 
was bai ially 
his Ww ith 
tenuifolium, 
the case 
a gentle little Lily 
strar anger to 3ritish 
Though the 
' be beca oe 
‘hae way the Slant ha ring, 
that is doubtless а а the bottom. of the 
short 
the well-being of ки te nuifó 
a quomo: on ка aet Se than 
I all v members of р 
tem-r E. gr S. the species neec 
кз ре Ган carpet drag which the аа т 
GROVE'S 
Fic. 99.—LILIUM MEDEOLOIDES IN MR. 
GARDEN AT KENTO 
iud rise to the sun, and : is seldom 
no dns an M ee- high, the carpeting eim 
There is nothing bett 
Mue hlenbeckia 
warf наре uns of 
Rig) Co 4 
m 
for 
= 
me 
= 
о 
suits this Lily; ; it ine way in 
those in aid t ier 
umus, and is not a = ап 3 
; lime seems more or less essential 
relfare. 
ulbs are as hardy as any 
genus and that is saying a gc 
n them 
"n 
2 р, 
aS 
zB 
2. 
А 
тав: As may be seen Бу refer- 
CHRONICEE. 
211 
to Fig. 101, the structure 4^ the bulb 
tenni fal is pisulist; is 
a fey wW Closes rappe Fy 
y scales so "fat as (now, 
there is no other "bulb like it in the whole 
vith the ы igle exception L. 
aged 
ence 
of L. 
sed of 
she W vouchsafed to 
us last yea t inherits the good con- 
stitution of its m ther, the wl 
3 with almost every oriferc 
species — those of 
jection which е 
more than a de seed comes com- 
paratively true, in the sense that a aigh 
proportion of £ ng will deve into 
ir 
Gies: is ine onis hy 
1 һе вл 
— 
m 
Another of the poeni Lilie that 
responded о the brief summer ol 1918 
s L. Lites ay a Japs inese species of 
nd with which few 
TER. T A more ar an а 
t acquaintance; is ы 
wild р 9 ns TIL sid 
Ithough regularly 
| from Japan in pre-v AyS, 
pod che ap enough ud buy, the bulbs are во 
frail that they seldom from the 
о 
; from seed 
s quick to D maturi, 
it is established. E dia. 
10m 
„чаре жа (зве Fig. 
spa arsely leaved plan 
99) . 1s 
p and, in point 
fact, has far fewer жя ‘than 
for 
t an 
arrangement c xd the leaves that 
its “ Kuruma- Yuri, 
Wheel al 
In айт the bulb of L. E unes is 
ven more ы чы а that of І. 
folium, referred above, an Ps 
unique in the illustration 
(Fig. 102) shows the unusual Spiare, of 
mass of 
varate scales, each of ъа minute 
itself and articulated. The upper half 
resembles a ў iis resemb- 
a descriptic 
1 common enough in the of 
the orion of "pul b 
onally ra 
Бев 1 е feature in 
the Asiatic species pr is a singular 
thing that in this iuc plant of the 
eqs hill sides a connecti 
g 
ink between the Бе totally dissimilar 
